01Books · 2025

Rebel Heart.
The Legacy of Hungarian Tattoo

An art album ex­plor­ing Hungarian tat­too­ing through the work and lives of forty artists.

Writ­ten and ed­ited by Kovács Héda, Rebel Heart brings to­gether artist por­traits, stu­dios and pho­to­graphs of their work. It ex­plores their in­flu­ences, tech­niques and the char­ac­ter of Hungarian tat­too­ing.

English edition

Rebel Heart: The Legacy of Hungarian Tattoo
ISBN 978-615-02-5257-5

Hungarian edition

Rebel Heart: A magyar tetoválás öröksége
ISBN 978-615-02-5256-8

Author

Kovács Héda

Publisher

Woven Hills Publishing, 2025

Editions

English and Hungarian. A limited run of special box sets was also produced.

Format

Hardcover, 352 pages. 274 × 216 × 33 mm.

Binding

Sections sewn into a hard case with a square spine. Red and black headbands, a red ribbon marker and black painted page edges.

Cover

Red book cloth with blind embossing across the front. The title is stamped in black foil on the spine in both languages.

Paper

Coated paper, 135 g/m², printed in four colours throughout with machine varnish. Black endpapers.

Recognition

Shortlisted for the Hungarian Book Design Award (Magyar Könyvtervezői Díj), 2026.